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Toshiba hasn't been worthy of a good reputation for a long, long time. I maintain a bunch (bunch = 12) of Toshiba P3 notebooks (four different models) for a research group on my local Purdue campus. Every Saturday or Sunday I call up my contact over there and find out what's broken... and...

My absolute answer: Whatever Apple's high-end model is at the moment. Apple notebooks (except the couple of models that had bad batteries) are great in terms of battery life and features. Put enough RAM in one and run everything from a RAM disk, and it'll go for days. PC-only: I'd buy an IBM T-...

It's not like there's a shortage of DM+ 9s in the world. Hell, SR hasn't reviewed a Samsung drive since the SpinPoint P40. I can remember thinking I was cool for having a 740X three days before SR released its reviews. I've had DM+ 9s (and 8s, too) for a couple months. SR published 15 reviews in...

Two words: DFI P2XBL. What a pain in the ass those things are.

In the positive balance for AOL: Continuing to support Mozilla. Making the passably-good AOLServer internet server available for free (you'd have to have a long memory for that one), owning WAIS (again, an accidental acquisition, but WAIS powers a lot of site-search features all over the...

... and in other news, I'm not seeing technical disccusions I'd choose to take part in. SR hasn't even done any meaningful reviews in what? Two months?

The fact that most of the participants in this poll are willing to ascribe a moral value to an otherwise immoral entity speaks for itself.

Yes, but it'd be really handy when you get a machine in for service that using those godsforsaken RIMMs. I dunno about you but I'm kind of short in the RDRAM department (OK, I admit it, I *do* have a couple... but I wouldn't if I didn't have to). Not to mention POS boards that won't work without...

Please to explain, Mr. honold. As a software company, Sun's only offense is not giving java over to a standards organization. Well, that and admirably winning lawsuits against winning-vote-getter Microsoft. :)

Sigh. I suppose I'll have to install Delphi or something so I can play with things.

1993 (the first year I had a real internet connection, and also the year AOL came and screwed everything up) had gopher and USENET as primary means of internet communication. Netnews was particularly great back then, since most service providers had TOS that included prohibitions against ALL...

Found this while playing around some freeware sites. No idea how well it works, but since it seems to include options for killing flash and ani-GIFs, I figure it's probably something of an improvement for you misguided IE-using types. http://www.kolumbus.fi/eero.muhonen/FS/

Don't know yet. That's why I'm still toying with the idea. :) I'm surprised there isn't a shareware app somewhere that'll tell you how long a certain program takes to run.

Subject says it all. Reason for the poll? The people I work for are convinced that I just hate software. But seriously, if these are the things you had to work with every day, wouldn't you be a little bitter? AOL gives us AOL, a bunch of different IM clients, Netscape/Mozilla and Winamp, and is...

Subject says it all. I'm trying to figure out what I'd need to create a database for divx encoding performance. Why? It seems to be the most stressful thing I can do on a PC, outside of gaming. I figure I'll need a "standard" video clip. Something that wouldn't take long to download or...

... only slightly more morbid, the investigation into the Challenger disaster revealed that several of the astronauts in that case SURVIVED and were still conscious up to the point where their cockpit hit the atlantic ocean. Like the 9/11 passengers, I have to think that those who know their...

Mozilla mail does that.

Yep. We have that situation now, in fact. There are IA64 versions of Windows 2000 and Linux, and software must be specially compiled for that chip, exactly like software for an entirely different architecture (e.g. Alpha, PPC, UltraSparc). x86-64 will run current software, but current chips...

I *do* hope the use of the appellation "great" was some form of sarcasm, Pradeep.

I learned about 9/11 from slashdot, and this from this thread, here. Slashdot had 600 posts about it, 20 minutes after they posted their headline about it. I turned on Telemundo, the channel I get with clearest reception, and of course I saw the video, over and over and over. It didn't matter...

Using outlook isn't stupid. Misguided, maybe. :) I don't think there's much justification to Outlook, unless you're someone who needs the Calendar aspect of the program. Other software can handle everything else, doesn't have the virus vulnerabilities, and won't use Word as an email editor...

Yes. That works. I've done that with customer machines that needed restored.

Ilan Ramon is a national hero in Israel. I just listened to a report about him on the radio last night. How totally tragic.

One of the local distributors here had a XP1400 - 1600 CPUs priced LESS than the Duron 1.3 for about two weeks, until they were sold out. Make no mistake, the Duron is still a good choice for easy upgrades. That's what I've been buying those AK32s for: a $50 board, $30 chip and $5 fan makes for...

Actually Blake, some time ago P5_133XL got a different answer on that question from Microsoft's Licensing people: You need to have one license of windows for every installation, whether it's on the same PC or different ones. Anecdotally, I know that you can activate many times on the same...

They've been running in and out of stock for about a week, but NewEgg is listing refurbished GA-7VAXPs for $49. I've bought a few refurbished boards from them in the past (an MSI K7T266 ARU and several Shuttle AK32x's). They've been just fine for me so far. Worst thing I can say is that the...

"78% IE" -> Keep in mind that many folk visit SF during the day on PCs where they might not have control over the choice of browsers.

Eh. lynx was the first web client I used. Until I saw mosaic, I really did like gopher better, since its numbered links imposed more organization to the information being presented. Anyway, since my early internet access was all shell-based, it's the client I came to love. By the same token, I...

It's good to see new people here. Welcome everyone. It's good to have new members, and better to have new folks to talk to.

Disclaimer: I've never activated WinXP myself. I don't think you'd have a problem in either case of installing XP on the same PC. My students (a lot of A+ students like to have several OSes to play with) tell me that it's a fairly painless process, even for nightmare situations like "I had to...

Since no one is going to stand up for it, I'd also like to say that having lynx & wget are both incredibly handy utilities. I use wget to snag web pages via scripts fairly regularly (you figure out what I use *that* for), and lynx is excellent for annoyingly image-laden pages (e.g. most...

Supertrick is probably a better list than the one I made myself.

I use Moz very nearly exclusively. IE only for browsing on Microsoft's site while at work. When I had *nix boxes with KDE, I did a lot with Konq, because it was handy, but not that I'm purely WindowMaker, it's all Moz there are well.

Very rarely. Mostly they just don't happen. There are "Page cannot be displayed" messages where there would be banners and ads in IE, but once someone explains why, everyone thinks that's just fine. Moz user that I am, I really hadn't realized how bad the the web has gotten under IE.

If you're a dialup type, just don't ever disconnect from the internet, and don't bother to plug in a phone (I have one plugged in. I don't know what it sounds like when it rings). I have a cell phone for "important calls I can't miss", and telemarketers don't ever call my cell number.

At work, after watching a single page open 11 popups, I pushed a 1000-line-long hosts file out to all the machines. Now you have to work pretty hard to get a popup or banner ad. :)

It probably would've actually cost them less to ship you another M64. Assuming you'd want such a thing. Of course, I'm not going to sympathize over a broken nvidia card, since I think they're ALL broken, but at least you can buy something better now.

That sick feeling in the pit of your belly? That's why we call them vomit boxes. :)

DFI P2XBLs are the same way. 256MB modules have to be registered and the chips have to be in a 32x64 configuration. Also a BX board.

I wouldn't say that this test has a very high opinion of OS/2, given the answers I had to get it to come up...

Um... Star Trek 3? Maybe? Now that my day - or at least the last 45 minutes of it - has been made brighter by this glorious news of AOL's impending financial ruin, let's think about things for a second. WTF is wrong with this company?!? Time-Warner has a media library worth billions of dollars...

C'mon, A.D., A&P is actually a pretty interesting class. Along those lines, though, where's bluetooth support for, oh, anything on the PC side? 1Mbit is plenty fast for browsing and printing (I assume IP will run over it). A bluetooth printer that took jobs from any device within 30 feet? That...

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Yup. It was designed by Sid Meier (the Civilization guy) in the late 80s (87? 88?) after his famous "Pirates!" and before Civ.

Khan from Star Trek. Ming the Merciless is from Flash Gordon.

That guy will probably take 32MB EDO or FP SIMMs. 64s are actually iffy on many HX boards (the Tyan and Micronics HX boards I remember both had weird requirements for high-capacity RAM). I don't think I'd bother trying 128s, no matter what the book says.

You could use FIND to strip out the "/" from that string.

Sometimes I miss new posts, too, Groltz, but no. I was thinking of installing a tiny VGA monitor in the tower cases in my server closet, where space is at a premium and I don't need to interact with the machines THAT much.

There wasn't anything particularly exciting about AmigaOS, but the Amiga itself was so far ahead of its time it was scary. Considering that we're talking about, at most, the same 68040 processors found in late-model non-PowerMacs (basically in the 20 to 33MHz range), those machines had...

OK. I did it again. OS X again, even though I changed my mind on a couple of questions. James, you will live to regret that remark. :D